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The Dangers Of Externalizing Knowledge
- noahth 16y agoExtreme version of counterpoint: By putting all of this knowledge online, we're building an organism bigger than ourselves. Weak version: We're learning new types of information, and in many cases creating it rather than simply seeking to retain it. My version is probably somewhere in the middle. But overall this is needlessly alarmist hand-wringing. Hooray for trend pieces!